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Below is a list of selected titles on Hector Berlioz, his life and works available at the Chicago Public Library. Also included is a list of related websites and a special section for children about classical music. For additional materials about the life and times of Hector Berlioz, please visit www.chicagopubliclibrary.org or your neighborhood Chicago Public Library.

Works by Berlioz

Books

Berlioz, Hector. The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz, Member of the French Institute: Including His Travels in Italy, Germany, Russia, and England, 1803-1865 (New York: Norton, 1975) ML410.B5A42 1975

Berlioz, Hector. New Letters of Hector Berlioz, 1830-1868 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1954) ML410.B5B367

Berlioz, Hector. Selected Letters of Berlioz (New York: W.W. Norton, 1997) ML410.B5A33 1997

Score

Berlioz, Hector. Fantastic Symphonie: An Authoritative Score, Historical Background, Analysis, Views and Comments Edward T. Cone, ed. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1971) M1001.B53 op.14, N6
Miniature score, based on the first editions with the composer's emendations, in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, and supplementary sources.

About Berlioz and Symphonie Fantastique

Books

Bloom, Peter. The Life of Berlioz (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998) ML410.B5B58 1998

Hopkinson, Cecil. A Bibliography of the Musical and Literary Works of Hector Berlioz, 1803-1869, with Histories of the French Music Publishers Concerned (Tunbrige Wells, England: R. Macnutt, 1980) ML134.B5H6 1980

Langford, Jeffrey Al. Hector Berlioz: A Guide to Research (New York: Garland, 1989 ML134.B5L3 1989

Macdonald, Hugh. Berlioz (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000) ML410.B5M13 2000

Rushton, Julian. The Music of Berlioz (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001) ML410.B5R87 2001

Wright, Michael G. H. A Berlioz Bibliography: Critical Writing On Hector Berlioz From 1825 to 1986 (Farnborough: Saint Michael's Abbey Press, [1988]) ML134.B5W73 1988

Recordings

Bernstein, Leonard. "Symphonie Fantastique: Berlioz takes a trip" (New York: Columbia, 1970) M1001 .B47 op.14, B4 [ LP ]
Maestro Bernstein explores Symphonie Fantastique with "musical illustrations" performed by the New York Philharmonic under his baton.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra. "Symphonie Fantastique: Episode de la Vie d'un Artiste" (Hamburg, West Germany : Deutsche Grammophon, p1984) M1001.B47 Op.14, A2 [ LP ] Claudio Abbado, conductor.
Program notes in English with French translation.

Orchestre de Paris. "Symphonie Fantastique" [France] (Naïve, 2002) M1001.B47 Op.14, E72 2002 [ CD ]
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor.

Video

"The Story of the Symphony, v.3: Berlioz" ([United States]: Home Vision, c1984) VIDEO HE3/56 [ VHS ]
BBC-TV production which discusses the life of Berlioz and the influence he had on the development of the symphony. Symphonie Fantastique is performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andre Previn.

ABOUT CLASSICAL MUSIC

Kelly, Thomas Forrest First Nights : Five Musical Premieres (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2000) ML63.K44 2000 [ book ]
Includes a history and public reaction to the first performance of Symphonie Fantastique on December 5, 1830.

Plotkin, Fred. Classical Music 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Classical Music (New York: Hyperion, c2002) MT90.P53 2002 [ book ]

Slonimsky, Nicholas. The Great Composers and Their Works [ 2 vols. ] (New York: Schirmer Books, c2000) ML160.S48 2000 [ book ]

JUST FOR KIDS

Krull, Kathleen. Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought). Illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt (Harcourt, 1993) Ages 9-12

Hayes, Ann. Meet the Orchestra. Illustrated by Karmen Thompson (Harcourt, 1991) Ages 9-12

Kushkin, Karla. The Philharmonic Gets Dressed. Illustrated by Marc Simont (Harper & Row, 1982) Ages 4-8

Moss, Lloyd. Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin: A Violin. Illustrated by Marjorie Priceman (Simon & Schuster, 1995) Ages 5-10

BERLIOZ LITERARY INFLUENCES

Cellini, Benvenuto. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Benvenuto Cellini)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust (Faust)
Homer. The Iliad (Les Troyens)
Shakespeare, William.
Hamlet (La mort d'Ophélie, Marche funèbre pour la dernière scène d'Hamlet)
King Lear (Le roi Lear)
Romeo and Juliet (Roméo et Juliette)
The Tempest (La Tempête)

Many copies of the titles listed above are available in various editions and/or translations at many branches throughout the Chicago Public Library system. Please consult catalog for locations.

A LITERARY CHRONOLOGY OF IMPORTANT WORKS PUBLISHED DURING BERLIOZ'S LIFETIME

1811	Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
1813	Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
1816	Emma by Jane Austen
1826	Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper PS1408.A2M38
1831	The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
1843	A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
1844	The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
1844-45	The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
1845	The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allen Poe
1846	The Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear PR4879.L2B66
1847	Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
1847	Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
1849	David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
1850	The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1851	House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1851	Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
1852	Moby Dick by Herman Melville
1854	Walden by Henry David Thoreau PS3042.A7
1855	Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman PS3201
1855	The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow PS2267.A1
1856	Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
1859	On the Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin QH365.O2
1859	A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
1861	Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
1861	Silas Marner by George Eliot
1862	War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
1865	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
1862	Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
1866	Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1868	Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.

Many copies of the titles listed above are available in various editions and/or translations at many branches throughout the Chicago Public Library system. Those held by Literature and Language Division at the Harold Washington Library Center are designated LITFIC.

THE ROMANTICISM MOVEMENT

Brown, Marshall. The Shape of German Romanticism (Cornell University Press, 1979) PT361.B76

Egendorf, Laura K., book editor. English Romanticism (Greenhaven Press, 2001) PR447.E58 2001

Evans, David Owen. Social Romanticism in France, 1830-1848 (Octagon Books, 1969) PQ292.E9 1969

Hurley, Jennifer A., book editor. American Romanticism (Greenhaven Press, 2000) PS217.R6A44 2000

Kelly, Linda. The Young Romantics: Victor Hugo, Sainte-Beuve, Vigny, Dumas, Musset, and George Sand and their Friendships, Feuds and Loves in the French Romantic Revolution (Random House, 1976) PQ287.K4 1976

Pfau, Thomas and Gleckner, Robert F., editors. Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion (Duke University Press, 1998) PR457.L47 1998

RELATED WEBSITES

Classical Music Navigator
http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/music/index2.htm
Designed for the novice interested in learning more about a composer and his music, or where to find music in a similar style. Organized into biographies, basic library, geographical roster, index of forms and styles, and a glossary.

DW3 Classical Music Resources
http://www.lib.duke.edu/music/resources/classical_index.html [ website ]
Bills itself as the world's most comprehensive collection of classical music links.

The Hector Berlioz Website
http://www.hberlioz.com
The premiere website devoted to the music, life and works of Berlioz. Features numerous links to other Berlioz sites including the Musee Hector Berlioz (http://www.musee-hector-berlioz.com ) and Berlioz Music Scores (http://www.hberlioz.com/Scores/sfantastique.htm )

Children's website:
Hector Berlioz, Composer
http://www.dsokids.com/2001/dso.asp?PageID=229
A children's site from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra with a brief biography and a link to an audio sample of the composer's Roman Carnival Overture.


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